Aktau Port’s cargo turnover in Jan-May totals 5,7m tons
Year-to-date trade flows via state-run Aktau International Commercial Sea Port (Port Aktau, Kazakhstan) amounted to 5,714.010 tons of dry cargo and oil products, the Port Authority statement said.
Total volume of oil and petroleum products transshipped in January-May via the port’s terminal reached 4,290.023 tons. Dry cargo shipments amounted to 1,423.078 tons, including 835.020 tons of metal, 84.490 tons of other cargo, 300,910 tons of grain. Ferry traffic volume was 203,360 tons. During the reporting 916 ships called at the port.
Over the recent May the port has handled 1,118.830 tons of dry and liquid cargo, including 828.540 tons of crude and petroleum products, 159.260 tons of metal, 48.420 tons of ferry cargo, 54.970 tons of grain, 27.640 tons of other goods. There were 185 ships calls in May, the port statistics said.
Port of Aktau is located on the east coast of the Caspian Sea and is the only seaport of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Port transships a broad range of dry cargoes of international traffic passing via its terminals, crude oil and petroleum products. Aktau Port’s throughput in 2009 rose by 26.7%, to 13,951,000 tons.